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Dividend Taxes and the Allocation of Capital: Comment

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  • Laurent Bach
  • Antoine Bozio
  • Arthur Guillouzouic
  • Clément Malgouyres

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Boissel and Matray (2022) find that investment increased after 2013 in French firms facing higher dividend taxes. We identify an alteration in the code plotting the event study of the effect of this reform on investment. Using identical data and removing this alteration, we find differential pre-trends between treated and control firms. We also establish that the controls referred to as "size growth," used in all the difference-in-difference specifications, effectively are controls for lagged investment, i.e., the main outcome variable. Removing such controls attenuates differential pre-trends but leaves no clear event study evidence of a positive effect of dividend taxation on investment.

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  • Laurent Bach & Antoine Bozio & Arthur Guillouzouic & Clément Malgouyres, 2023. "Dividend Taxes and the Allocation of Capital: Comment," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 113(7), pages 2048-2052, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:113:y:2023:i:7:p:2048-52
    DOI: 10.1257/aer.20221432
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    1. Bruns, Stephan & Herwartz, Helmut & Ioannidis, John P.A. & Islam, Chris-Gabriel & Raters, Fabian H. C., 2023. "Statistical reporting errors in economics," MetaArXiv mbx62, Center for Open Science.

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    • D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
    • G31 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Capital Budgeting; Fixed Investment and Inventory Studies
    • G35 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Payout Policy
    • H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies
    • H32 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Firm

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